Quick tip on "distance until empty"
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Quick tip on "distance until empty"
Zero means zero. I was lucky to find this out stopped at a severe downhill with the gas station on the far side of the light. Were it not for that, would be a pretty embarrassing phone call!
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Ha! That's useful info. Cheers.
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My engine quit at 32 km remaining on the day I took delivery from the truck here in Europe. Luckily I had some good friends to help and we were only about 300 meters from a gas station!
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It's not like an American car where E means you've still got gas!
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On my first test drive the tester ran out of gas while showing 18 miles left. . .my buddy and I took an uber back to the dealership while my sales associate waited for someone to bring gas. As we started the test drive I asked if we should be concerned with the gas light on and the sales guy says "no, it's fine" lol.
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Oh, for the "good old days." The first Porsche I drove in 1964 (my father's 356) had a simple fuel valve under the dash that gave you a 1-1/2 gallon reserve when twisted 90 degrees to the right. If the gauge was low and the engine started stumbling, you just reached under the dash and twisted it, then started looking for a gas station before you ran all the way out.
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Oh, for the "good old days." The first Porsche I drove in 1964 (my father's 356) had a simple fuel valve under the dash that gave you a 1-1/2 gallon reserve when twisted 90 degrees to the right. If the gauge was low and the engine started stumbling, you just reached under the dash and twisted it, then started looking for a gas station before you ran all the way out.
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The other issue with the fuel valve was that you could forget to turn it back to "On" from "Reserve" after filling up, and therefore there would be no reserve the next time you tried to use it.
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As the ex-owner of 2x 356s... This ^ ! I'd never remember which was which either... and the petcock would eventually start leaking and smelling inside the car.. and if you never used reserve you never picked up the crud from the bottom of the tank, so the day you needed it, surprise !!! Cool feature though, I liked it.
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Also in 981's and 991's When the gas pump 'clicks', IT's FULL. No more rounding to the nearest dollar, it will overflow. Even going .50 causes gas all over the ground. Don't ask me how I know
It kills my OCDness.
It kills my OCDness.
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I've run all my German cars to zero and beyond without it dying.